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Ruthless People (1986)
Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
“Sam Stone's wife has just been kidnapped... And he doesn't want her back!”
Comedy · 1h 34m
Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
Cast
Danny DeVito
Sam Stone
Bette Midler
Barbara Stone
Judge Reinhold
Ken Kessler
Helen Slater
Sandy Kessler
Anita Morris
Carol Dodsworth
Bill Pullman
Earl James Mott
William G. Schilling
Chief Henry Benton
Art Evans
Lt. Bender
C
Clarence Felder
Lt. Walters
J.E. Freeman
Bedroom Killer
Gary Riley
Heavy Metal Kid
Frank Sivero
The Mugger
Crew
- Director
- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Screenplay
- Dale Launer
- Director of Photography
- Jan de Bont
- Original Music Composer
- Michel Colombier
- Editor
- Gib Jaffe, Arthur Schmidt
- Producer
- Michael Peyser
Details
- Release date
- 1986-06-26
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Box office
- $71,600,000